That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing! Been a while since I tried it out but last I looked Tribler’s own automation features were quite lacking so something like this helps a lot.
I was not able to download anything with more than 1 hops in between - ie it does hide your real IP address, but only uses one relay in between.
Hmm I don’t think there’s any relays at all in that configuration, unless you’re counting the exit node itself?
One thing to keep in mind is that to download torrents from outside Tribler’s own network you would need to download through an exit node… not sure on the exact stats but last I tested exit nodes were only like 5-10% of the Tribler user base. For a while I tried volunteering my own VPN connection as an exit node for Tribler just to see how it went but the Tribler client kept locking up/crashing after a few days so the experiment did not go well… hopefully works better nowadays.
True, wouldn’t be too different vs just using a VPN. You’re choosing to trust the Tribler tech and the Tribler exit node operator vs choosing to trust the VPN provider. Granted most VPN connections are going to have much better performance vs anything Tribler related.
There is a nice side effect of running an *arr stack against Tribler, even in 1 hop mode - Your Tribler node is much more easily pulling in new content into the Tribler network for other users to access afterwards without needing an exit node. Ideally it’s just one Tribler node/user needing to pull data through the exit nodes while the rest would just pull it from you and share with other nodes in-network.
Torrents over I2P work the same way. If the torrent data isn’t found within I2P and you have outproxies configured you could pull torrents from the clearnet & afterwards other I2P users just share amongst the I2P network.
If you use Namecheap for email domain(s) you may want to consider also splurging for their PremiumDNS to keep your domain(s) off spam blocks at other email providers.
I help maintain some emails at Gmail/Google Workspace but the domains themselves are at Namecheap. For a while there were complaints that some emails never landed in other people’s inboxes… this led me to talk about the issue with one of the email provider recipients based in the UK & apparently they were null routing anything coming from Namecheap since they felt a lot of spam came from them. But after some experimenting I figured out their system (& probably others) were figuring out they were Namecheap domains via the default FreeDNS they use. On a hunch I switched those domains over to PremiumDNS and after that all our emails were landing in other inboxes correctly. I guess maybe it makes sense, a typical spammer buying a cheap domain at Namecheap isn’t going to splurge for the higher end DNS service for it.
I’m not saying all email providers treat Namecheap domains as spam but just be warned there definitely ones out there that do.
If you’re using Google Workspace, Google will give you the appropriate DMARC, DKIM and SPF records to add to your DNS. The NS themselves should resolve the records and provide the recipient server with the values you’ve entered, thereby ensuring delivery.
Sure. But why would that matter when you’re dealing with hostile 3rd party email providers that intentionally want to blackhole all email domains at Namecheap? But yes, just to clarify I do configure DMARC/DKIM/SPF and that works great for most cases.
I’m just describing what worked for me though in truth I don’t know exactly how these hostile email providers actually determine the domain is hosted at Namecheap. My hunch is that they are using a lookup & finding the nameserver for the domain & have already blacklisted Namecheap’s default free nameserver IP addresses. For whatever reason those same hostile email providers don’t seem to be blacklisting Namecheap’s paid nameserver but I think that sort of makes sense…
The larger issue is that Namecheap is known for cheap domains that scammers/spammers tend to buy in bulk & then use to spam with. Those same scammers/spammers aren’t trying to spend extra money so they only ever use the default free Namecheap nameservers.
But, regardless, blocking any registrars that size the way you’re describing would break way more businesses and hurt the recipient provider’s own reputation.
Yeah I thought that too but when speaking with the email admin that was blocking Namecheap while figuring this out they had already decided it wasn’t worth trying to allow the 1% of valid emails vs the 99% spam emails they felt they received via Namecheap domains.
This honestly starting to sound more and more like a smear campaign
Smear against whom? I’m a Namecheap customer, just relaying my own experiences using them. Besides that quirk I like them fine as a registrar… I know it sounds dumb but I even renewed my domains there even after those email issues.
It’s fine, you don’t need to believe me as I said it’s just my own experience using Namecheap domains for emails. But you could just google around, you’ll see plenty of people discussing Namecheap & looking for solutions to block them (or solutions to successfully send emails with hem)… it’s not something I randomly made up if that’s what you’re implying.
Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.
I created this project some years back and the project just reached v1.1.0. I know most people have jellyfin servers and all set up, but if you have just a local folder of all your series saved up, you can use this to remember what you were watching....
Kodi (kodi.tv) does the same thing & more. People think of it as a sort of streamer but its original/main purpose is to manage local media downloads including movie/tv series.
Bummer, the formfactor / specs look okay but it’s kind of a dead end if I can’t just install & use a vanilla Debian OS or similar.
With all the NAS OS options probably Synology has the best one but even there I don’t actually want to get locked into that. I doubt this UGOS software can match Synology’s let alone Debian.
Whenever I start qbittorrent, the seeding torrents are queued. I’ve got two upload slots and 30 seconds timeout. It takes very very long until all torrents are seeding, if ever, until the next restart....
Seems easier just to disable queuing altogether. Then if you’re worried about bandwidth usage just configure your “global maximum number of connections” and your “global rate limits” to whatever you need them to be. Also keep uTP enabled (under Options / Connection) if you’re concerned about the torrent client using up your bandwidth while using the internet.
It’s not the answer you’re looking for but it might be worth giving a try.
Hey mates, recently I’ve developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I’ve done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art and the lemmy.dbzer0.com....
Anyways this all seems like a non-issue IMO, most people don’t even see the community homepage and would hardly ever see the banner pic. And db0 isn’t talking about flooding /c/piracy with AI art posts, just updating the community banner… though this instance does have a local community !stable_diffusion_art if you’re interested in seeing AI art posts.
So to make it clear: people are allowed to make new piracy centric communities with the express rule to not post direct links to primarily providing copyright infringing material?
Nope, it’s more than that. Lemmy.world admins don’t want you to link to any websites that link to anything that might contain direct links or references to direct links. Strangely that means that linking to Google or Reddit would fail that test so links to those sites should be removed by lemmy.world admins too.
This community, however, contains a pinned Megathread post by a community moderator, which, through a few levels of a pastebin-like site, provides an aggregated overview of various sources of content. Some of these sources are entirely legal content, but it intentionally includes various other references, such as the website referred to from the CrackWatch community, which are primarily intended for copyright infringement.
The megathread post that admins are referring to contains links to a different website that contains links - that website is not on Lemmy at all. Lemmy.world admins took this removal action because the community contains a link to another site that may contain links lemmy.world admins don’t like.
Fastmail is great but it’s a totally different market /use case, you wouldn’t go with them if you’re privacy oriented. They’re better than Google in that sense but you’d go with Proton if you’re looking for privacy features.
Also keep in mind Fastmail is based in Australia and their government tends to be anti-privacy with the laws that get passed there.
Not sure about SIM cards but you can still use cash to buy prepaid phones along with an amount of minutes/text to activate. Like the kind of prepaid phones that you you see the vendors sell x minutes/text/data. e.g. I’ve never been asked for a credit card to buy a Tracfone. Some places like Best Buy will ask you for other information to sell it but none of it needs to be real (ironically Best Buy asks for a phone number to buy a prepaid phone, LOL).
Hadn’t heard of that one. But there are a few other aggregators around you can check out e.g. cloudtorrents.com, idope.se, knaben.eu, snowfl.com, torrentdownload.info, torrentseeker.com
A lot of people run searches through qBittorrent search plugins so that’s another alternative.
Or use something like Jackett or Prowlarr for multi site search.
So over the years (decade?) I’ve used Ventoy a lot. For those not aware, it is basically a live USB that you can add other ISOs to to boot into those. Usually overkill but incredibly useful for those days when you need diagnostics, a simple terminal, and then to install something what you actually want....
Not sure if it fits what you’re looking for but I usually use YUMI for multi boot situations, can’t recall it giving me any issues over the years. But I don’t do anything overly complex either.
Never had the need to use Ventoy myself so can’t really give a good comparison but maybe others have used both & can give a better review.
PS - For what it’s worth my basic toolkit is YUMI with www.system-rescue.org and www.memtest.org, that alone covers the vast majority of my diagnostics/rescue situations. But I’ve also added Windows 10 ISO onto the multi boot on occasion which could be useful for getting to a Windows prompt with Windows tools when needed - though I have a habit of keeping Windows on its own USB via rufus.ie
There are a bunch of other public torrent indexers that you can try to apply for uploading but it doesn’t always work out e.g. TorrentGalaxy, 1337x, GloTorrents, TorrentFunk, YourBitTorrent.
SolidTorrents / BitSearch does allow adding torrent hashes into their database without an account.
See the earlier posts, lots of discussion, I also have a list going in the last linked post that you are free to test and comment back on what worked for you :)
Tribler *arr integration (github.com)
Hey selfhosters!...
Custom Domain Email
I self host pretty much everything, but one of the services I find makes more sense to not self host is an email server....
YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)
Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.
Premium Torrent Sites
What are some good premium torrent sites for movies and tv? Do those still exist or is piratebay the main site?
The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Offflix - Series manager for your local downloads (user-images.githubusercontent.com)
I created this project some years back and the project just reached v1.1.0. I know most people have jellyfin servers and all set up, but if you have just a local folder of all your series saved up, you can use this to remember what you were watching....
Is the soulseek community dead?
It currently is on fmhy.ml who is down(!soulseek_slsk), are there here any users of that comunity? Should we make a new one?
What old pixels should i avoid?
It’s about time to move on from my 2xl, I’m shooting for a used/referb for under $250.
UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup (betanews.com)
how to avoid seeding torrent queue
Whenever I start qbittorrent, the seeding torrents are queued. I’ve got two upload slots and 30 seconds timeout. It takes very very long until all torrents are seeding, if ever, until the next restart....
Rotating banners on /r/piracy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hey mates, recently I’ve developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I’ve done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art and the lemmy.dbzer0.com....
Removal of piracy communities
Removal of piracy communities...
Fastmail vs Proton Mail
Who of you uses one of the above services, what do you think of it?
How to sign up to services that require sms authentication?
What is the proton equivalent of this service if one exists?
Dirty Torrents is being discontinued (dirtytorrents.com)
It was my favorite torrent site aggregator, so its a little disheartening to see it go....
Better Live ISO Booter than Ventoy?
So over the years (decade?) I’ve used Ventoy a lot. For those not aware, it is basically a live USB that you can add other ISOs to to boot into those. Usually overkill but incredibly useful for those days when you need diagnostics, a simple terminal, and then to install something what you actually want....
How do I share stuff nowadays?
If this is the wrong place to post please direct me elsewhere of course....
Are torrent blocklists still a thing? I remember having one years ago for my Transmission client but can't seem to find any "vouched for" free lists.